Revision 0, 28 December, 2006
This will be revised, maybe.
Below list is borrowed from thedigitalphotographyshow.com Show #18
Blogs are listed separately
Forums, well whatever
Digital Photography School has a post on links to some basics of photography.
The musts:
www.luminous-landscape.com
www.nikonians.com Well if you are a Nikon user.
www.bythom.com Thom Hogan writes Nikon E-Books, reviews Nikon gear and lenses, writes comprehensive articles.
www.naturfotograf.com Bjorn Rorslett is a Nature photographer who writes about photography, reviews Nikon gear and lenses.
Moose Peterson Nature photography, equipment etc.
If you care about prints that will last for the future. Bits won’t necessarily last on media as long as hard copies.
Wilhelm Imaging Research conducts research on the stability and preservation of traditional and digital color photographs and motion pictures.
The must blogs:
Comprehensive Sites
www.imaging-resource.com Imaging Resource – Good comprehensive site
Review Sites
www.dpreview.com The Granddaddy of Review Sites
www.steves-digicams.com Another great site for comprehensive reviews
www.dcresource.com Another good review site
www.reviewcentre.com Review Centre – Good comprehensive site
AnandTech digital photography section has some articles also and is mostly know as a computer hardware site
Technique
www.betterphoto.com An excellent place to take an online course, post your pictures
www.ppsop.com Another photography school
www.digital-images.net Ron Reznick produces a set of Photography training DVDs. He also has reviews of Nikon lenses
www.morguefile.com/archive/classroom.php?lesson=1 Listener Rich shared this terrific site for learning the basics of composition:
adorama.webphotoschool.biz
Shopping
www.thecamerastore.com
www.vistek.ca
www.vintagevisuals.com
Bocaphoto who has all kinds of obscure parts and accessories
www.buy.com You should check out the prices here, too.
www.bhphoto.com
www.adorama.com Two of the USs biggest sellers on the web.
www.techbargains.com My favorite place to check daily for coupon codes and sales.
www.slickdeals.com Another popular site for bargain-hunters.
www.cameratown.com Excellent updated listings of photo-related deals, plus links to photo news and reviews.
www.ffordes.co.uk Premier UK stockists of class used equipment and possibly the most beautiful camera shop in the world situated in an old converted church in the far North of Scotland – packed with vintage Leica equipment!
Gallery Sites
www.shuttercity.com an online gallery and critique site which has some cool images but ended up with too much backslapping and too little criticism to be useful. Stopped posting here when I became disillusioned with it all, but keep an eye on it as there are a few good photographer who still post here – check out Kia Moss.
www.pbase.com
Photographers
www.samoamax.com digital artist, photographer and all round cool guy – I came across him on:
www.julianfoley.co.uk Lomo style images
don black
etc.
strobist
www.fredmiranda.com Great lens reviews and Fred sells some cool software.
for comments and reviews, and enter contests.
tools.
www.openraw.org OpenRaw.Org is a movement to make the manufacturers RAW formats open source rather than proprietary.
www.theradiantvista.com
— Latest updates here for now —
July 2008
Digital ProTalk Links
www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com
www.studiolighting.net
www.photowalkthrough.com
www.martinbailleyphotography.com the home of Martin Bailey Photographer and Podcaster – good and occasionally active forum community.
www.wetducklounge.com the website of Sondra Mantle – Nova Scotia based photographer, writer and poet – check out the old galleries some of the images a re stunning in their simplicity.
www.lomography.com home of the lomographic movement – originators of “shoot from the hip” – cool photos from cheap cameras
www.toycamera.com another lomography related site
www.theholgabox.com
http://www.photo-freeware.net/
